Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected 2009 officers: o Roger Sevigny, New Hampshire insurance commissioner, is president. Sevigny was appointed New Hampshire insurance commissioner in 2003. Prior to that,

Aon Consulting Worldwide, the global human capital consulting organization of Aon Corp., appointed Matt Smith as senior vice president and leader of the defined contribution practice in the U.S. He will serve clients with design, implementation and

Burns & Wilcox has promoted Laura Colbert to director of sales and marketing and Chandra Kwaske to underwriting manager at its Farmington Hills, Mich., office. Colbert, with 15 years of insurance industry experience, is responsible for developing

The Professional Insurance Marketing Association (PIMA) named USI Affinity Collegiate Insurance Resources' Alumni Term Upgrade the Best of PIMA at its annual Marketing Methods Competition at the 2008 PIMA MarkeTTech Symposium held in Baltimore,

Kim Newberry, an associate at Meadowbrook Insurance Group, was presented with the Professional Underwriter of the Year Award by the Michigan Council of the National Association of Insurance Women (NAIW) at their annual convention in Grand Rapids,

Sloan Mason now has access to a program with an A XV admitted carrier, which provides WC/GL/Auto/UMB for power line contractors. These contractors can perform work on high voltage lines, in utility plants, as well as in commercial

Kristen Netschke has joined the Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc.'s Southfield, Mich., branch office as corporate counsel. Netschke assists in the supervision of regulatory, corporate and litigation matters. Most recently, she worked as an

The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has elected seven newly members to the board of governors. 19 companies also joined the association in 2008. PCI's new board members include: Terrence W. Cavanaugh, president and